Re: Remove last traces of SCM credential auth from libpq?

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-03-17T23:13:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 09:30:32AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> KRB4 was switched in a159ad3 back in 2005, and KRB5 in 98de86e back in
> 2014 (deprecated in 8.3, so that's even older than creds).  So yes,
> that could be removed as well, I guess, falling back to the default
> error message.

This seems like something worth a thread of its own, will send a
patch.

>> Nah, I see no reason to wait.  We already dropped the higher-level
>> client support (psql/pg_dump) for these server versions in v15.
> 
> Okay.  I'll clean up this part today, then.

I got around to do that with 98ae2c8.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. libpq: Remove code for SCM credential authentication